1 00:00:19,77 --> 00:00:25,72 All women worked as prostitutes for police that particular lifestyle that doesn't 2 00:00:25,76 --> 00:00:29,52 busted into prostitution sting one hundred people arrested going undercover 3 00:00:29,53 --> 00:00:33,75 prostitution stable why style that of course simply want to live below the radar 4 00:00:33,76 --> 00:00:38,62 one case deputies arrested a sixteen year old girl sixteen year old girl arrested 5 00:00:38,66 --> 00:00:41,21 a sixteen year old girl who they think may be 6 00:00:41,22 --> 00:00:47,22 a victim of sex trafficking the safe harbor law states that Minnesota youth where 7 00:00:47,23 --> 00:00:51,83 those under the age of eighteen who engage in prostitution are viewed as victims 8 00:00:51,84 --> 00:00:56,76 and survivors of sexual violence not criminals this law was passed in two thousand 9 00:00:56,77 --> 00:01:01,86 and eleven in two thousand and eleven I was sixteen years old why is arresting 10 00:01:01,87 --> 00:01:07,70 someone who is sixteen the solution how do they even get there I know someone who 11 00:01:07,70 --> 00:01:07,100 has done 12 00:01:08,01 --> 00:01:14,77 a lot of research in this area and maybe they can piece this together for me. Just 13 00:01:14,77 --> 00:01:21,24 trying to get some background here would you mind giving me an academic 14 00:01:22,25 --> 00:01:28,90 background. I have worked in Journalist their own 15 00:01:28,91 --> 00:01:35,72 background but I recently started working with forensic psychology and I've been 16 00:01:35,87 --> 00:01:40,25 doing research in forensic psychology and I've just finished reading 17 00:01:40,26 --> 00:01:42,78 a textbook and present psychology and do 18 00:01:42,79 --> 00:01:48,67 a lot of work and study and human trafficking process. He had any. 19 00:01:50,20 --> 00:01:56,81 History and so you think well apply to this. One of the 20 00:01:56,99 --> 00:02:03,79 images that came to me while studying human trafficking some powerful was repressed 21 00:02:03,80 --> 00:02:07,61 came out of the creation and Lucretia was 22 00:02:07,62 --> 00:02:14,44 a real person and she lived in the Roman era and she had been raped 23 00:02:14,55 --> 00:02:21,50 by. No woman and she could not go back to her husband 24 00:02:21,51 --> 00:02:24,90 or her family she had two choices she could either go live with 25 00:02:24,91 --> 00:02:31,79 a Roman or she commit suicide and her choice was suicide this 26 00:02:31,83 --> 00:02:38,69 is is the kind of thing that women still face and it's 27 00:02:38,70 --> 00:02:45,10 still an issue in human trafficking all over the world women are ducted taken into 28 00:02:45,11 --> 00:02:51,83 human trafficking and. They have nowhere to go so even if they escape 29 00:02:52,42 --> 00:02:55,97 there is there's no hope and they just get into 30 00:02:55,98 --> 00:03:02,91 a cycle and they go back into to prostitution just to live OK so I 31 00:03:02,92 --> 00:03:09,07 students it's very important to get involved and. Understanding. 32 00:03:11,03 --> 00:03:12,26 Politics works in 33 00:03:12,27 --> 00:03:19,04 a situation so what policies do you know about. Relevant to 34 00:03:19,15 --> 00:03:26,12 human trafficking there are new state laws some cases 35 00:03:26,16 --> 00:03:29,98 where instead of the trafficking victim having to get together 36 00:03:29,99 --> 00:03:34,30 a. A lawsuit it would involve civil court 37 00:03:34,34 --> 00:03:40,95 a lawyer very expensive stuff the criminal courts are now including. 38 00:03:43,35 --> 00:03:49,94 Fining the perpetrator either the parable or the the person who is forced into 39 00:03:49,95 --> 00:03:56,71 labor to pay for lost wages or pay fines to the victim so the loss are good in two 40 00:03:56,72 --> 00:04:03,54 ways. They're keeping. The traffickers from getting back in business 41 00:04:03,84 --> 00:04:08,82 and they're helping the victims return to society in 42 00:04:08,83 --> 00:04:13,98 a way that they can hold their head up. To college. 43 00:04:15,97 --> 00:04:20,92 No organizations that have worked to mitigate. 44 00:04:22,72 --> 00:04:29,10 Human trafficking and sex trafficking they face college students there is this 45 00:04:29,11 --> 00:04:34,06 entirely things that are researching this and one is for college students to 46 00:04:34,07 --> 00:04:40,44 realize that some of the one of the biggest organizations polarise that is involved 47 00:04:40,45 --> 00:04:46,21 with keeping up with helping people who are trafficking victims was started by 48 00:04:46,22 --> 00:04:52,00 college students at these Harvard University and they are still active and Harvard 49 00:04:52,01 --> 00:04:56,66 has taken from the students. Created 50 00:04:56,67 --> 00:05:03,31 a trafficking was department and they teach trafficking law there this is 51 00:05:03,32 --> 00:05:08,31 fresh out into I think Georgetown they teach trafficking or some other places too 52 00:05:08,55 --> 00:05:13,68 and it was driven by college students so she very proudly cards check.